“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.” KnowsMenNeedsGivingMayActionPainLyingSleepSpaceKnownKnow HowChangedGreatnessReturnSimplicityDrivenParticlesExaltedBlacknessFieryOuter SpaceWithout Pain Book:Sweet Thursday Source: Sweet Thursday
“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.” WorldTryingI CanTwoPainThreeDifferencesChurchSpacePleasureFiveFourFootballTasteSmellSensesKicksBellsLemonsFive SensesLimesChimesTweensChurch Bells Author:Andy Partridge
“[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.” YearsBelieveMayDoeMightPainLastsI BelieveGrowsHoursSpaceGreaterMinutesOvercomingTemporaryOvercoming PainPain Is Temporary Author:Lance Armstrong
“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.” WorldPainSufferingGrowthSpacePleasureConditionsThis WorldBuddhismBirthDecaySpinningPain And Pleasure Author:Frederick Lenz
“I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.” PeopleGivingShouldLongHas BeensMomentsPainOrderWaitingSpaceWorryReadyForgivenessAdvantageForgivingInstantWoundedTime And SpaceRight MomentWronged Author:Lewis B. Smedes
“time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.” WritingStillsReasonPainFallSpaceDrugAffairAlcoholBelovedHangoverWithout Pain Author:Meg O'Brien
“Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.” ChildrenStoriesFeelingsPainYoungCommunitySpaceRoomsEgoConnectionsOutletsYoung Children Author:Tom Hiddleston